IKITAN, heavy post-rock trio from Genoa, Italy, proudly announce their comeback with their first full length titled "Shaping The Chaos”.
Recorded between 2021 and 2025, the album is inspired by inexplicable phenomena or weird places from planet earth.
“Shaping The Chaos” is self-produced and it will be distributed by Taxi Driver Records. The album will be published on digital, cd, and vinyl (hand-numbered limited edition of 100 copies with an obi) on Bandcamp Friday 7 March 2025. Both physical formats come with a poster representing the album cover, once again crafted by Luca Marcenaro.
Pre-orders for “Shaping The Chaos” start on Friday 14 February on IKITAN’s Bandcamp page, and the album will be premiered by The Obelisk on Wednesday 5 March.
IKITAN will also present the album at a release party held at Flamingo Records Store in Genoa, Italy, on Sunday 9 March.
“Shaping The Chaos” encapsulates the last four years of the band’s life and the conflicting emotions that led to its making. Even though it is very different from the debut EP “Twenty-Twenty”, it shares the same emotional and instrumental philosophy.
If “Twenty-Twenty” featured a single track or, better a musical journey, lasting 20 minutes and 20 seconds, “Shaping The Chaos” includes nine self-contained songs, each one inspired by our planet.
“Curiosity has driven us to cross unusual places and delve into the intricacies of the planet Earth's inexplicable natural phenomena. Each of these inspires the songs on the album.
We go from blood falls to the place where the meteorite that led to the dinosaurs’ extinction fell, from the door to hell to the sound of the world’s loneliest whale,” states the band.
And the music? 100% IKITAN—post-rock and metal with a touch of stoner, psych, and prog, featuring dreamy guitar lines that build over a deep, driving bass and thunderous drums.
This time, IKITAN decided to infuse the song "Natron" with something unique, thanks to the contribution of two incredible artists: Olmo Manzano on percussion and Roberto Izzo on violin.
“Shaping The Chaos” includes 9 tracks in the digital and cd version, and 7 on vinyl, as “Darvaza” and “Brinicle”, which will be available on cd and in digital, were already published as a limited-edition cassette in 2021.
The album will be published on Friday 7 March 2025, which is also Bandcamp Friday.
“Shaping The Chaos” is distributed by Taxi Driver Records and it will be available on digital, cd and vinyl (hand-numbered limited edition of 100 copies with an obi) from Friday 7 March 2025. Both physical formats come with a poster.
Pre-orders for “Shaping The Chaos” start on Friday 14 February on IKITAN’s Bandcamp page, and the album will be premiered by The Obelisk on Wednesday 5 March.
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Recorded, mastered and produced by IKITAN between 2021 and 2025 at Marsala Studios, Genoa, Italy, World.
IKITAN is the alleged god of the sound of the stones, brought to life by:
Luca Nasciuti: guitars
Frik Et: bass
Enrico Meloni: drums and cowbell
Olmo Manzano: percussions on “Natron”
Roberto Izzo: violin on “Natron”
Graphics: Luca Marcenaro
